A SHORT STORY
Nina nodded her head in agreement to follow the image in the mirror.
She took hold of Nina's hand and her spirit left her disappearing into the mirror, while her body was still seated on the chair in front of the mirror.
She took Nina on a long journey in a lonely lane that seemed like a grave yard.
They walked a long distance, Nina was confused as the image went mute, not uttering a word to her as they were going.
Nina forced questions out from her mouth as she asked the image "where they headed".
The image looked at Nina and her eyes changed, the hair on her head changed to snakes and her nails shot out, penetrating on Nina's shoulders.
Nina released a loud scream and bent to the ground to avoid her eyes meeting with the mysterious image.
The image dragged Nina on her hair and faced her in a particular direction.
Nina pieced her eyes in the direction and saw four horrible narrow ways.
One carried fire, one with a sandy ground, the other with water, and the last a bubbling Air that seemed like a white smoke.
The horrible image dragged Nina into fire, in there, Nina was burnt from her hair to the sole of her feet.
She cried her eyes out and there was no help close by, still in the fire she got a flash back of her past life as an orphan.
Her parents had died in a terrible accident, leaving her to suffer and wander the bitter world.
Several attempts to commit suicide and end her life, she saw how she took decisions that could have made her to join her late parents.
How she went to the road side to beg to earn a living.
** The image suddenly dragged Nina out of the fire and took her to the powdery sand.
She struggled to stand as the ground was unstable making her lose stamina.
Still on the sand, Her life was full of ups and downs as she made desperate choices to sustain and belong.
She had slept with people's husbands, even when she was caught, she didn't show any shame so she chose it as a lifestyle.
Standing by the road side and waiting for men who do nothing but pay to have girls in their bed every night.
Is it scamming people to collect their hard earned money to become richer than those who suffered for it.
Is it fighting and humiliating evangelists who came to preach to her to repent from her evil ways.
Is it wearing a mask on the face to enter people's compound in the night to take what doesn't belong to her.
All these things were Nina's lifestyle.
She stood still, watching herself go through these things just to survive.
Going to a man's house at night and returning at day time was a suitable job for Nina, and she was happy about it
Nina stood dumbfounded, shading tears to see herself in such situations.
She was lust in thoughts and the Image pulled her out forcefully and took her to the bubbling Air that seemed like white smoke.
Nina was about to enter the air when the powerful breeze ripped her clothes and everything she carried off her body.
The powerful breeze blew sand into her eyes and she couldn't see again, she covered her two hands on her eyes and bent to the ground, the breeze forcefully blew the flame of fire to where she stood and she could feel the hotness of the fire penetrating deep inside her.
She screamed loudly pleading for help from the image.
The image left her to scream till she was weak, the image pulled her out and took her to the water side.
The coldness of the water suddenly healed her from the trials she passed through before getting there.
She walked slowly and entered the water and went under to deep herself.
Inside the water, she thought of who she was and the life she had lived to be among the living, and she wished to change her ways and become better.
She was still enjoying the coldness of the water when the image pulled her out.
She looked up and it wasn't the mysterious image that made her pass through those terrible processes.
It was Nina, the image who appeared in the mirror in her room.
Nina asked her look-alike image, why she disappeared and why the horrible image appeared to make her pass through hell.
The lookalike image of Nina smiled and placed a hand on Nina's shoulders.
In life, there are processes, there are stages you must pass through to get to that coldness and free world you desire.
Nina wept uncontrollably, wishing to change her life and amend her ways.
The look-alike image of Nina held Nina by the hand
Before Nina could raise her face up, she saw herself lying on her foam sweating.
"So this is a dream",it's a dream!!!! She screamed loudly.
The end.
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